Festival Beach Food Forest is facing imminent disruption from an unexpected and insufficiently communicated wastewater pipeline relocation associated with TxDOT’s I-35 project. We are calling on the community to help us secure an immediate pause so the City, TxDOT, and community stewards can work together on a permaculture-based approach that minimizes ecological damage and honors years of City-approved planning and public investment.
In the last year and a half, hundreds of volunteers have donated their time to plant over 50 trees and 30 plants along with cover crop along the berms that the new pipeline threatens to move. These trees planted, once mature would have an annual impact (once trees mature) of 0.8 tons of carb removed from the atmosphere, 6,000 gallons of stormwater runoff prevented and 28,000 gallons of rainfall intercepted (Source: www.treeequityscore.org).
To get involved, please visit the Festival Beach Food Forest page to read the press release and find additional direct ways to support including emergency volunteer days (also listed on our events page).
